A Pioneer Romance From Myrtle Point to Pleasant Hill
Dora Bigelow recounts meeting Neal Gearhart in Oregon and their long marriage beginning with a muddy ride from Myrtle Point to Pleasant Hill. She describes moving for farming life, the 97 acre ranch near the river, and sixty two years together in one house with shared labor and orchard work.
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Myrtle Point
Pleasant
Doris Willams
Shiloh
Neal Gearhart
John Neal Gearhart
Dora
Oregon Ag College
Alaska
Fairbanks
Skagway
Pleasant Hill
Esther Gearhart
Neal
Brewster Canyon
Marshfield
Birksmith
Dora Gearhart remembered through a long life of care
The obituary recalls Dora Gearhart’s sixty plus years in Coos County life. She taught school during World War I and raised five children while Neal surveyed the county. After John Neal’s death in 1971 she faced renewed memories and aging, culminating in a move to a nursing facility as strokes weakened her.
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Neal
Coos County
John Neal
Dora
John Bigelow Gearhart
Sixes
Port Orford
Gibbs
Hudson Bay
Pleasant Hill
Agness
California
Hugh
Clark
John A. Cannut
Hazel
John B
Coos Bay
Dad
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Myrtle
Bigelows
Eckley
Riggs
Salmon Creek
Jim
Trigg
Trila
Marie
Emma
Lorin
Amelia
Johnnie
Mrs Darnell
Ella
Los Angeles
Robert Becgulw